MARCH
Tue 13th
Year 9 WEX Factor day
The PTA would like to encourage you to attend the
monthly Car Boot Sales held on the school site every
first Sunday in the month, except in January when
there is no sale.
You can come either as a seller or a shopper.
Entrance –
Cars
£15
Cars - side on
£30
Vans (transit & people carriers)
£30
Large vans and lorries
£35
Walk in Sellers
£10
Shoppers
50p
Car Parking before 9am (includes occupants)£5
Disabled parking (includes occupants) £3
Tables can be hired at £5 each with a deposit of £25.
Sellers are let in from 7am. The sale hours are from
8am to 1pm.
Note: Chiswick students may sell their own possessions
at the sale as ‘walkers-in’ and will not be charged but if
a student is accompanied by a parent with a car, normal
rates apply. They can rent a table at no charge using their
School Diary as a deposit, but if the items for sale belong
to the parents, the normal hire fee applies.
The PTA would also welcome hearing from any parent(s)
interested in helping at these sales. Please contact Chris
Race: gate@talktalk.net

Chiswick School is Born
March 1st saw the transformation
of Chiswick Community School into
Chiswick School, now an academy.
After many consultations, meetings and
reviews Chiswick Community School
officially became Chiswick School and
an academy on Thursday 1st March.
Mr Ryan said the change to academy
status was ‘almost inevitable if our
school wants to stay in control’. He
explained that the government is
actively encouraging schools to become
academies and taking funding away
from local authorities. This means
that some of the support we have had
from them in the past has gone. For
example, the local authority would
have previously provided experts to
advise on the curriculum but now they
no longer have the funding to do this.
The budget for academies comes
directly from government and also
includes the money that would have
gone to the local authority. ‘But,
becoming an academy,’ said Mr Ryan,
‘is more about making independent
decisions for the good of the school and

students than about any extra money
involved.’ Chiswick School works really
well with the council which Mr Ryan
says he hopes will continue.
So what does the name change signify?
Many students and staff felt the word
‘community', although representative
of the school’s local links, was outdated.
The school will remain rooted in the
local community, but a new name was
needed to reflect our new status. The
school’s new logo, a combination of
several student ideas, supports this.
By Laura Reid

Trip to Sky News
Centre

On Wednesday the Sky News centre
in Osterley played host to the Year 10
English Media classes.

Homework
Club Welcomes
Thousandth Visitor

The students started by going on a tour
of the building. The fun began when
they started to look at how news stories
are created. The team at Sky showed
them how to choose from different
newspaper articles and decide which
ones would be newsworthy and could
be presented on the news.
Then they were taken to see the latest
3D technology being used at Sky
television. Here they got to look at how
the programme ‘Mystika’ creates all the
3D clips and shows.
Mattie Haines, 10 Grove, said ‘It
was really interesting seeing how
they create all the TV programmes,
especially the news and the weather
forecasts.’
The students came back saying it was a
great trip and that they were intrigued
to learn how television programmes are
made.
By Laura Reid

In September, an early morning
homework club opened, which very
recently received its 1000th visitor.
Ishmael Al-Hamiri, in 8 Fielding was
the lucky recipient of this honour. He
was rewarded with a certificate and 100
Vivo points. Ms. Izquierdo and the CSO
team have been running the club.
When it first opened the club took place
in A00, a small ICT room. It got so busy
that the CSO team had to move it over
to A8, a full size room. Open from 8.008.40am, 20- 28 students a day attend.
‘It builds good habits for the future,’
Ms Izquierdo enthused. ‘They are all
keen to hand their homework in on
time. Whether it’s the finishing off of
Mymaths, or printing something off
from your usb, everyone’s welcome! It’s
a fantastic working atmosphere and a
very good way to start the morning,’
she continued.
So once again, congratulations to
Ishmael Al-Hamiri, and rememberthe homework club is open every day

between 8 and 8.40a.m. Be there or be
square!
By Maryam Khalha

Battle of the Bands,
an Excellent Evening

Innovative Science
Revision Technique
The Science department are launching
an innovative and alternative way to
revise and learn Science through a
website available for online homework,
practice tasks and revision notes
to aid students with their learning.
The
website
http://21science.
gcsehomework.com is produced by
Oxford University Press for OCR 21st
century Science and is aimed at all
students doing GCSE Science: Year 9,
10 and 11. Each student will be given
their individual login and password to
access this site as a learning resource
in the coming week. The department
is very excited about it- predicting it
‘popular with the students' after its
branding of ‘the Science Mymaths’.
By Nikoleta Gashi

Last week saw the return of Battle of
the Bands to the schools stage and what
a battle it was. The headlining act was
Feedback Voice who travelled all the
way down from Leicester. They played
a few of their own songs as well as some
covers and were very popular with the
audience, with Luke Lee saying how he
thought ‘they would be big soon.’
There were lots of performances, but
only three bands competed who were;
The Ace of Spades, Avalon and a year
10 band who consisted of Tibor, Nina,
Mathew and Joe. The lucky winners
were Avalon who played an excellent
cover of ‘Sugar we’re going down
swinging’ by Fall Out Boy.
Other performances of ‘Rolling in the
Deep’ by the Sixth Form Band and also
‘End Credits’ by Grace, Mr Warren,
Boris and Alfie, as well as another Adele
duet were also widely popular with the
audience.
Overall, it was a excellent evening
with very talented musicians – Khloe
summed it up by saying ‘There’s so
much musical talent in the school – we
need to stage a festival!’
By Alfie Howell